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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 2d

#nzpol

GOOD NEWS ALERT 🚨

Today the government relented to pressure from the @livingwageaotearoa.bsky.social and retained the requirement for contracted workers to be paid at least the Living Wage rate in Government Contracts. Around 5,000 workers will likely benefit from this decision

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Tauranga Man @ohwhine.bsky.social · 5d

Absolute Queen

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 12d

#nzpol Monthly employment data - and there are 4,814 more jobs than this time last month! Whoop. Only 42,746 to go to get us to where we were at the last election. 62 jobs lost every single day of this government, one roughly every 23 minutes. A 🧵

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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 12d

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Tauranga Man @ohwhine.bsky.social · 19d

Kinda crazy how we were all led to believe that the placebo effect showed the incredible power of the mind, up there with 'you only use 10% of your brain' 😅

Michael Marshall @mrmmarsh.bsky.social · 19d

If we take away the statistical quirks and biases, is there any placebo effect left? | Mike Hall

Once you eliminate well-understood elements like bias and regression to the mean, there's no remarkable placebo effect left to explain

The Skeptic @skeptic.org.uk · 19d

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Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 19d

Environment Canterbury has declared a nitrate emergency - but what does that mean for the region? Greenpeace freshwater campaigner @willappelbe.bsky.social explains 👇
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... #nzpol #cleanwaternow

What is a nitrate emergency? And why is there one in Canterbury? - Greenpeace Aotearoa

Regional council Environment Canterbury has declared a Nitrate Emergency. But what does this mean for drinking water protections?

www.greenpeace.org

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 22d

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...

theonion.com

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Tauranga Man @ohwhine.bsky.social · 23d

Anyone standing for council who wants to 'cut rates' or claims 'rates are too high' gets an immediate veto from me. Use rates wisely, but you obviously can't have your cake and eat it too.

Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 23d

This awesome local election poster..

#nzpol

Tauranga Man @ohwhine.bsky.social · 26d

Good article except the bit about him being a 'fluent debater' 🙄

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 29d

Kash Patel implies the existence of Credit Patel and Debit Patel

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Tauranga Man @ohwhine.bsky.social · 29d

That's how it's done

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29d

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years and three months after a Supreme Court panel convicted him over an attempted military coup aje.io/tlscxx

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Tauranga Man @ohwhine.bsky.social · Sep 10

NYT with the hard hitting journalism here 🙏

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Sep 8

(🚨) The Proof Project is celebrating the revelation that Trump lied to America and the justice system about his pedophilic birthday note to Epstein—both text and image are pedophilic—by releasing Book Two of PROOF OF DEVILRY (pp. 201-400) for FREE.

The full story is *so* much worse than you know.

{Book 2} Proof of Devilry: The Crimes of Donald Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein

The available evidence places Trump, Epstein, and Maxwell at the heart of a multistate and multinational child sex-, sex- and human-trafficking ring whose discovery could change the course of history.

sethabramson.substack.com

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Tauranga Man @ohwhine.bsky.social · Sep 8

Another way to remember 'left loosey, righty tighty' is 'the left liberates, the right oppresses' (from Spanish apparently)

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · Aug 29

#nzpol Monthly jobs rose this month – great! Except we have 36,734 fewer jobs than at the election. There are 17,573 fewer jobs than this time last year. Total wages have fallen 4% in real terms. If the current economic plan is working – its not working for working people. A 🧵

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Tauranga Man @ohwhine.bsky.social · Aug 21

Heard the good news and immediately thought of you 😊

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Tauranga Man @ohwhine.bsky.social · Aug 21

Good

AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · Aug 21

time to focus on the family IN HELL, JAMES DOBSON AHAHAH

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EV Curve Futurist @evcurvefuturist.com · Aug 19

🚨 IEA now says renewables will be the world’s #1 power source by 2026 (possibly as soon as 2025). Wind & solar already supply >90% of demand growth, coal’s decline is baked in. The tipping point is here—clean energy isn’t the future, it’s the present. ⚡🌞 #Renewables #EnergyTransition #BESS

IEA: Renewables Will Be World’s Top Power Source "by 2026" - CleanTechnica

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to new...

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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · Aug 5

How getting New Zealand Back on track is going: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/luxon-fina...

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · Jul 31

What do you do for a broken health system and burnt out healthcare workers?
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Healthcare #Nurses

Cartoon. A box of Brown’s Plasters (band-aids) on a table. The front of the box shows Health Minister Simeon Brown holding his middle finger up, which had a sticking plaster around it. The side of the box says “Economy Size”. Beside the box it says, “Used on health workers across the motu”

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Tauranga Man @ohwhine.bsky.social · Jul 30

What the hell is this wingnut doing in Aotearoa? Shouldn't our government be preventing prominent conspiracy theorists from entering NZ? 🤔

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... FBI boss Kash Patel spotted at Parliament | Stuff

Not so top secret: FBI boss Kash Patel spotted at Parliament

An eagle-eyed Newstalk ZB journalist on his second day in the job spotted the boss of the FBI loitering in the bowels of Parliament. But no one from the Government will say if or why he’s here.

www.stuff.co.nz

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chairmanknow @chairmanknow.bsky.social · Jul 29

#Yeehawtheboys
#nzpol

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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · Jul 29

Continuous refilling of the Tūī feeder required on this very wet day. Every time I go into the kitchen I am faced with trees filled with Tūī staring at me

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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · Jul 28

Riding The Flaming Dipper Of Doom
#nzpol cartoon for NZListener.
www.slanecartoon.com/-/galleries/...

Riding The Flaming Dipper Of Doom - Cartoon depicts Shane Jones riding a flaming arrow headed downwards labelled 'Oil & Gas' towards a smoke-filled destination beyond the frame.
Jones: "No, no we must stay on this trajectory all the way down. drill baby, drill!"
PM Chris Luxon hangs on desperately.
A green arrow labelled 'Global Energy Revolution' crosses their path heading up towards the sun, indicating a brighter future.

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Tauranga Man @ohwhine.bsky.social · Jul 24

Some days this is what you need 😎